Russell Brown is a producer-writer-director whose feature credits include Annie and the Gypsy (2012, Osiris Releasing), a terse drama starring Cybill Shepherd and inspired by the poetry of Federico Garcia Lorca; The Blue Tooth Virgin (2009, Regent Releasing), a comedy about the rivalry of two screenwriters (Bryce Johnson and Austin Peck) that won a Special Jury Prize at the Seattle Film Festival; and Race You to the Bottom (2007, Here Films), an award-winning dramedy starring Cole Williams and Amber Benson which, the Los Angeles Times wrote, adroitly captures the quicksilver shifts in moods within a tempestuous, passionate romance between two articulate, free-thinking young people. A Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Southern California’s Film program in 1998, Brown was a creative executive with Laura Ziskin Productions at Columbia Pictures and Saturday Night Live Studios at Paramount Pictures. He has also made a number of well-received shorts, including: Karen Black on Acting (2013), Everyone Who Hears This Story Gets Laid (2012), Robert Therrien’s Red Room (2008), Reality USA (2004), based on work by the noted poet Mark Halliday, and, on PBS, Mama Laura’s Boys (2002), about the oldest blues club in Los Angeles.